I & I Editorial BoardConservatives were making hay about Kamala Harris’ latest “word salad” at a campaign event in Pennsylvania, where, in an attempt to sound intelligent, she went on about the “duality of democracy.”
“They took Kamala off the teleprompter today in Pennsylvania,” Outkick.com founder Clay Travis posted on X. “It didn’t go well.”
But conservatives have it wrong. It’s actually much worse than that.
Harris has been uttering this particular word salad for years – robotically, using almost the exact same phraseology, and at almost any public event where she was allowed to speak, whether or not it was relevant.
Here’s what Harris said in Pennsylvania over the weekend.
We know there’s a duality to the nature of democracy. On the one hand, incredible strength when it is intact; what it does for its people to protect and defend their rights, their liberty, and their freedom — incredibly strong. And incredibly fragile. It is only as strong as our willingness to fight for it.
Here’s what Harris said at a security conference in Munich back in February 2022.
And — and then, when we think about the election and in the context of that, we must understand the duality of the nature of democracy.
On the one hand, it’s very strong in its nature, in terms of what it does to protect individual rights and freedoms. And there’s great strength in that.
And on the other hand, it’s very fragile. It will only be as strong as our willingness to fight for it. And this is one of those moments in time.
And what Harris said DNC Winter Meeting in April 2022:
And we must always remember the duality of a democracy in that, yes, there is strength. But a democracy by its nature is also fragile, meaning it will only be intact if we fight for it and never take it for granted and be vigilant with a sense of clarity every day.
And a “moderated conversation on reproductive rights” in April 2023:
And we must always remember the duality of a democracy in that, yes, there is strength. But a democracy by its nature is also fragile, meaning it will only be intact if we fight for it and never take it for granted and be vigilant with a sense of clarity every day.
And in an interview with the New York Times last November:
And — and then, when we think about the election and in the context of that, we must understand the duality of the nature of democracy.
On the one hand, it’s very strong in its nature, in terms of what it does to protect individual rights and freedoms. And there’s great strength in that.
And on the other hand, it’s very fragile. It will only be as strong as our willingness to fight for it. And this is one of those moments in time
There are many, many, many other examples.
Harris was widely mocked for another attempt to sound insightful, which she repeated ad nauseam, a line about about “What can be, unburdened by what has been.”
The RNC was able to put together a four-minute long video of Harris saying this phrase over and over and over again.
Just this past July, she trotted it out again, prompting the liberal Mediaite site to lament that he “just won’t stop using widely mocked and memed trademark phrase.”
And when asked this week about her economic plan by a reporter, Harris found a new phrase to make herself sound smart: “return on investment.” She repeated it four times in a rare, brief answer to a reporter’s question about how she planned to pay for her new programs.
In other words, these aren’t examples of Harris going off script.
This is her script. Which suggests that she’s even dumber than we thought.
— Written by the I&I Editorial Board
I used to think it was bad when Donald Trump would slip into some of his useless phrases on a regular basis. But his slips usually had relevance. When I read about the times Kamala Harris does it, I see that she doesn’t have a point to her message.
Tyrannical leaders typically arise from a coup and Kabama is definitely a tyrannical leader in waiting. People do not like her.
One thought: How in the world is she going to communicate with our adversaries and allies? Will our and their translators even understand what she is saying?
This is just one example of the paucity of helpful ideas and incompetence of communicating them that Kamala has. In my opinion, her inability to communicate (to want to impress rather than to impart her ideas) is just one of the problems inherent in a Kamala Presidency.
If there is ever a nuclear issue that needs to be discussed with a foreign power she may think the correct idea but say it so that it is mortally misunderstood.
Kamala Harris repeats herself often…she is not only Stupid she Is Boring! 🙄